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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
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"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
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"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
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"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance."
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"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
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"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation
"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
Language
"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
Man
"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."
America
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
Life
"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."
Peace
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
Family
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
Act
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